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ArticlePharmaceutics2023

Ensemble-Learning and Feature Selection Techniques for Enhanced Antisense Oligonucleotide Efficacy Prediction in Exon Skipping.

Alex Zhu, Shuntaro Chiba, Yuki Shimizu, Katsuhiko Kunitake, Yasushi Okuno, Yoshitsugu Aoki, Toshifumi Yokota

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Alex ZhuPhillips Academy, Andover, MA 01810, USA.
Shuntaro ChibaHPC- and AI-Driven Drug Development Platform Division, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5118-6373
Yuki ShimizuDepartment of Biomedical Data Intelligence, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan.
Katsuhiko KunitakeDepartment of Molecular Therapy, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8551, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-2860-7002
Yasushi OkunoHPC- and AI-Driven Drug Development Platform Division, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.
Yoshitsugu AokiDepartment of Molecular Therapy, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8551, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-9038-7506
Toshifumi YokotaDepartment of Medical Generics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2H7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6672-6742

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Abstract

Antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-mediated exon skipping has become a valuable tool for investigating gene function and developing gene therapy. Machine-learning-based computational methods, such as eSkip-Finder, have been developed to predict the efficacy of ASOs via exon skipping. However, these methods are computationally demanding, and the accuracy of predictions remains suboptimal. In this study, we propose a new approach to reduce the computational burden and improve the prediction performance by using feature selection within machine-learning algorithms and ensemble-learning techniques. We evaluated our approach using a dataset of experimentally validated exon-skipping events, dividing it into training and testing sets. Our results demonstrate that using a three-way-voting approach with random forest, gradient boosting, and XGBoost can significantly reduce the computation time to under ten seconds while improving prediction performance, as measured by

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antisense oligonucleotidesensemble learningexon skippinggenetic diseasemachine learningn-of-1 therapypersonalized medicineRNAsplice switchingsplicing

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PMCPMC10384346

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